May Mobility

Autonomous Vehicles

LeadML/PerceptionEngineer

$235–275k Anywhere Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Lead ML/Perception Engineer at May Mobility. Skills: ML/Perception, Autonomous vehicles, System architecture, Robotics. Develop software and system requirements. Lead architectural updates to perception stack”

Industry & Context.

Autonomous Vehicles
Problems you'll solve

Issue diagnosis; Issue resolution

Eligibility Requirements

Moderate travel: 11%-25%

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years industry experience, Master's degree in Robotics, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, Demonstrated experience leading architectural decisions, Programming skills in C/C++/Python, Software development in Linux environments, Experience in ML/DL development with PyTorch/TensorFlow, Direct experience developing or fine-tuning large-scale multi-modal models, Experience with real-time areas: Computer Vision, Experience with Semantic scene understanding, Experience with Perception robustness in degraded conditions, Experience with Multi-target tracking and sensor fusion, Extensive experience deploying features, Experience re-architecting legacy perception systems, Experience utilizing large-scale multi-modal models for edge-case detection, Experience with explainable AI in autonomous systems

Nice to Have

Experience with synthetic data in ML system development, Familiar with Reinforcement Learning (RL), Familiar with ML/DL optimization on real-time products

What You'll Do.

Develop software and system requirements

Lead architectural updates to perception stack

Design system-level architecture

Modularize perception stack

Migrate perception stack

Design scene detection capabilities

Develop scene detection capabilities

Own scene detection capabilities

Classify operating scene/scenario

Trigger appropriate perception behaviors

Improve perception robustness

Handle sensor fault detection

Monitor sensor health

Implement graceful degradation strategies

Implement fallback strategies

Design perception features

Implement perception features

Test perception features

Integrate multi-modal models

Improve semantic scene understanding

Improve scene reasoning

Track technical performance of perception

Trend technical performance of perception

Lead feature development

Lead extensive testing

Satisfy release schedules

Lead development for data pipelines

Lead development for development pipelines

Lead development for ML pipelines

Align multimodal data for training

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication

Process & Methodology

Feature design, Code reviews, Issue diagnosis, Issue resolution

Full Job Description

May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May develops and deploys autonomous vehicles (AVs) powered by our innovative Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology that literally reimagines the way AVs think. Our vehicles do more than just drive themselves - they provide value to communities, bridge public transit gaps and move people where they need to go safely, easily and with a lot more fun. We’re building the world’s best autonomy system to reimagine transit by minimizing congestion, expanding access and encouraging better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant and livable spaces. Since our founding in 2017, we’ve given more than 500,000 autonomous rides to real people around the globe. And we’re just getting started. We’re hiring people who share our passion for building the future, today, solving real-world problems and seeing the impact of their work. Join us. Job Summary May Mobility is entering an exciting phase of growth as we expand our first-of-its-kind autonomous shuttle and mobility services across the nation. Launched in 2017 with a strong team of experienced roboticists and software engineers with decades of experience fielding robotic systems in the wild, May Mobility is looking to expand its team of robotics engineers with a background in robotics or autonomous vehicles. As Perception Lead, you will own the technical direction of how our vehicles see and interpret the world. This is a hands-on role focused on three priorities: advancing scene detection so the system reliably recognizes its operating context and engages the right behavior; hardening perception against sensor degradation and adverse weather (rain, snow, fog, glare, low light, and sensor soiling or occlusion) so performance degrades gracefully and safely; and driving major architectural updates to evolve our perception stack into a scalable, maintainable, production-gra

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